Re: [evolution-patches] Seeking review for bug #47751 & #47752

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

how is "window" any better than druid or wizard? I think it's pretty
safe to say that a user knows what a wizard dialog is.

Microsoft uses them everywhere...

Jeff

On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 13:27 -0400, William Jon McCann wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 02:15, Maxx Cao wrote:
> > 3. The confirmation message will be like this:
> >     "Are you sure you want to cancel this druid?"
> >                                                                  ~~~~~ ( 
> > or "wizard" is better wording for end users?)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm just curious, is it ever really necessary to expose this kind of
> terminology to the user?  I'm going to guess most people in the world
> have no idea what this kind of druid or wizard is - nor do they care
> to.  We already force users to learn way too much lingo IMO.
> 
> How about: 
> "Are you sure you want to close this configuration window?"
> or "Do you want to cancel this configuration process?"
> 
> The first still relies on the user identifying a thing (window) but at
> least one that is already entrenched and kinda/sorta has a real world
> counterpart.  The second attempts to refer to what the user has been
> doing.  In general I think this latter approach works better.
> 
> It may also be good to add secondary text that explains that information
> that has been entered will be lost.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Jon
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Jeffrey Stedfast
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